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I think the weight watchers video is more offensive not for leaving out the fat people but because the women represented don't seem to do anything except exist and this is deemed incredible.   This is why, when women try to achieve something that may be more significant than just existing, people pat them on the head and say, "But look!  You existed!  Here's a boost to your self-esteem:  You are incredible!"



On Facebook, I was recently invited to some kind of group called "The whole woman" and there was a subtitle to it as well, something relating to exuberance and self-esteem.   Consequently, I made a site called "the regressive woman: mutiliation and despair."  Nowadays, though, because people have lost touch with both irony and cynicism, which are modes of transcending extreme superficiality, I will be suspected to be a mad and mutilating woman.   But it is clear why these readings come about.   It's because by just existing, we women deserve to be deemed marvellous and amazing survivors.  We could even "survive" our first kiss, so long as it was not on an aircraft destined to plummet into the ocean never to be seen again.  



Why work to create something tough or difficult to understand at first glance when you can just latch onto some motif of womanly wholeness and spriteliness out of thin air?



I survived some deeply troubling interactions with humans, and I know I can drop a few pounds as anything is possible at all, after interactions with humans.